Nick Perry (writer)

This article is about the British writer Nick Perry. For Nick Perry the American broadcaster, see Nick Perry.

Nick Perry is a British playwright and screenwriter. He is a graduate of the National Film and Television School. His first play Arrivederci Millwall was produced by The Combination at The Albany Empire, Deptford in 1985 and jointly won the Samuel Beckett Award. Smallholdings was first performed at the Kings Head Theatre in 1986, and The Vinegar Fly at the Soho Poly in 1988. Near Cricket St Thomas, 1919 was directed by Alan Ayckbourn at the McCarthy Theatre, Scarborough in 1997. An Illustrated Talk was performed at the Newtown Theatre, Sydney, as part of the 2008 Short and Sweet festival. His radio play The Loop was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009 and received nominations for Best Drama in the BBC Audio and Music Awards 2010 and the Sony Radio Academy Awards 2010.^[1]

Filmography

• Arrivederci Millwall (1990)
• Tube Tales (1999)
  • segment "Steal Away"
• The Escapist (2001)

Plays

• Arrivederci Millwall (1985)
• Smallholdings (1986)
• The Vinegar Fly (1988)
• Near Cricket St Thomas, 1919 (1997) "Alan Ayckbourn: Director". http://directing.alanayckbourn.net/Plays%20-%20Near%20Cricket.htm. Retrieved 26 September 2009. 
• An Illustrated Talk (2008)

Television

• Rockliffe's Babies (2 episodes)
• Tales of Sherwood Forest (1987)
• Clubland (1991)
• Nuclear Secrets (2007)
  • "Superbomb" episode

Radio

• The Loop (2009)

• Planet B (2011)
  • episode "Doing Time"

• Referee (2011)

References

1. ^ Sony Radio Academy Awards | 2010 | Best Drama

• Discussion of Arrivederci Millwall in Political Violence in Drama: Classical Models, Contemporary Variations by Mary Karen Dahl. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1987 (ISBN 978-0835717540)
• Arrivederci Millwall and Smallholdings by Nick Perry. Faber and Faber, 1987. (ISBN 978-0571147748)

External links

• IMDB page
• doollee.com page

Persondata
Name	Perry, Nick
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death